:: Saturday, June 21, 2003 ::

We would like to officially welcome Kanarinka as our latest contributor. Please visit her site at Ikatun.org

We have no new media fixes this week; however, here are a few recommendations from the exisiting list:

Boston Cyber Arts
Hypermedia
Digital Craft
engage.nu

The recommended fix of the week is: maccsi.org
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The "Spaceworks Gallery" in New York, America, is currently making an open "Call for Experimental Art" in a wide selection of media including Installation, Video, Photography, Sculpture Painting, New Media and presumably all hybrids of these. The deadline is 6/26/03 and the only real other critera seems to be that the work must be "innovative and experimental"!!
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Finally, I am glad to announce a resource that is sure to prove essential to the net art community. Discordia.us is now officially open for dissemination, providing a new way of communication where users submit stories which can then be voted on. The stories with the most votes are then presented on the splash page.

Discordia.us is an ambitious experiment at decentralized self-publishing, so log-on, read-on and most importantly vote on ideas that you deem important. This new approach to communication is sure to affect the dynamics of mailing lists.
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The United States may not realize up to what extent its image as an imperial power has developed around the world. One of the most alarming pieces inspired by Anti-Americanism that I have experienced online is Andrej Tisma's American Art School, which consists of a series of photo-stills presenting U.S. American soldiers destroying images of Saddam Hussein. The net project appropriates the photos in order to present U.S. soldiers as conquerors rather than saviors of Iraq.

The war with Iraq is obviously a very delicate matter, which consists of so many variables that it would be impossible for me to write a just analysis in this short review. But, one thing that can be sensed in many net projects that spurred around the web as the war with Iraq developed is a sense of anger combined with fear of what a super-power could do around the world. This is the image that the U.S. now has to demistify, and this may prove to be a bigger battle than any other fought up to this point.

Andrej Tisma's American Art School exposes the ideological global crisis the U.S. currently faces. Tisma's piece does demonize the United States; and while such extremism exhausts any criticism from Tisma's work, what should be noted is its alarming message: that the U.S. is dealing with a much bigger problem than finding weapons of mass destruction.
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Voici un invitation a le "Hommage à Nicolas Schöffer" pionnier de l'art cybernétique, dans le Jardin des Sculptures en plein air, Quai Saint-Bernard, Paris, France (face à la rue Cuvier, Métro : Jussieu ou Austerlitz) cette Lundi prochain (23/06/03) à partir de 22h (Performances à partir de 22h30).

"À l'occasion de la remise en lumière de la sculpture Chronos 10 en hommage à Nicolas Schöffer présentation d'œuvres", cree par Wolf KA, Antoine Schmitt, Helen Evans et Heiko Hansen, "inscrites dans le prolongement du spatioluminochronodynamisme (concept de Schöffer sur la mise en relation cybernétique de l'espace, de la lumière, du temps et du mouvement)".

Merci à Antoine Schmitt pour m'envoyer le renseignements sur cette evenement.
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The annual Soundtoys exhibition is now online. Some well known names are on the list, so dig in and get lost -- then get lost again. Intense it is...

:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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In the name of decentralization, here is yet another great resource to be nurtured by all net art enthusiasts: Interlucina.org a site reviewing the diversity on the world wide web. Reading Spanish is required, but if anything else... go for the link! Enjoy.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Here are some links worth sharing that have been recently added to the rhizome database:
Safe as Mother's milk by Kim Stringfellow
nakituminayashi.com by Nikola Tosic
marathon.55 by Gregory Chatonsky

Source of reference: rhizome.org
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Give the DJ a break! Winding Road Records is an animated flash website brought to us by John Burgerman. His hand drawn sensitivity comes through once again. Is it net art? Maybe not; but it is one of the funnest flash sites I have run into lately. Make sure to put the DJ to work, and push the buttons on the Dancing Robot. Have fun with it. We need not be so serious all the time.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Furtherfield.org has been part of the net community for quite some time. Now the further crew brings to you Futhertext.org edited by Charlotte Frost.
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Starting tomorrow in London, Variable Media 01 lauches its end of the year residency event featuring the work of various artists:

"VM.01 is a Variablemedia event marking a year of on-line artists'residencies. It will both present and elaborate on all 6 of the first years on-line projects. The www.variablemedia.org site has hosted artists based in England, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. Some regularly make work for the Internet, for others their Variablemedia project was their first on-line work."

A site worth visiting. Keep an eye out for reviews focusing on specific artists in the near future.
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RE: "And those who love electronic experimental music" - If your in London, England this weekend (19/06/03 - 21/06/03) there is the "Cybersonica festival 03" happening mainly in and around the "ICA" (Institute of Contempory Arts).

Presentations include "Smartsound: A Framework for Multi-user Sound Interaction" by John Eacott, a panel session on "Soundspaces, Instruments and Environments", an exhibition of work entitled "lansonik" by Alan Peacock and live sets by Kid606 and Howie B. For more information please see the website.

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This coming Thursday make sure to log on and experience the latest online lecture brought to you by agent.netart:

"June 19, 2003 @ 7:00 pm.
Kathleen Brandt + Brian Lonsway
The artisits will explore what seems to be an increasing craving for data in our everyday lives, and will present a series of projects which take this craving as a critical starting point."

:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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And those who love electronic experimental music, check out the Sonar Festival 2003.
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Frontline recently featured a compelling report on the probabilities of a cyber-attack on the U.S.
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Do you have the plug-ins necessary for the ultimate experience on the net? The answer to this question can be found in Andy Deck's latest piece Plug Inventory. 270 plug-ins available. Find out what you are missing and customize your computer as you wish. A word of warning: you might feel extremely unequipped when looking at the plug-in list.
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"404 Object Not Found. What remains of media art?" is an international congress on "the production, presentation and preservation of media art" taking place in Dortmund, Germany from the 19 June to the 22 June 2003.

"The congress encompasses lectures, panel discussions and study groups. In addition to presenting the case studies, international experts are invited to present their experience, strategies and current projects in the field of media art."

"Particular attention to installative as well as software and net based art." will be given, "investigating media art in terms of art theory, for instance dealing with the aspects of its processual and 'unstable' nature, its embeddedness in space or a specific context as well as its philosophies of a multiple or open authorship. Many works of media art therefore defy a determination in terms of an 'original' state to be fixed, and on which art theory, curators or conservators could rely. What could/should this mean to the discussion of media art?"

Presentations will be made by representatives of some of the new media art communities most significant and advanced initiatives including....

Olga Goriunova, Co-organizer of "runme.org", Moscow and Helsinki
Pip Laurenson, Sculpture Conservator for Electronic Media and Kinetic Arts at TATE, London
Anne-Marie Duguet, Professor for Arts and Technology at the Sorbonne, Paris
Alain Depocas, Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D) Daniel Langlois Foundation, Montréal
Nikolett Erõss, Art historian, C3, Center for Culture an Communication, Budapest
Sandra Fauconnier / Rens Frommé, V2_Organisation, Rotterdam
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Here is a site worth noting: web-side.org 1.0 It seems to be at an early stage. Definitely worth repeated visits.
:: Eduardo Navas [+] ::
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Turbulence's most recent commisioned featured is on Xavier Pehuet. Here is part of the press release:

"EKPUROSIS is a micro-universe in a cycle of random regeneration. Pehuet invites the user into an environment that is constantly mutating and to which users may contribute. Mouse movements and clicks propel the work forward, and users’ images are “absorbed” by the work, each becoming a part of the greater whole."

EKPUROSIS is visually rich. The only criticism on my part is a brief reference to The Matrix Trilogy. Not that I have anything against The Matrix but the movie can overwhelm a work such as Ekpurosis. It is easy to get lost on Pehuet's site for a good amount of time because all the user needs to do is click, click, click. Algothims never looked better.
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Here are the latest additions to the New Media Fix:

FW:Fwd. An online exhibition of artists films (A new set of films is going online soon)

Sharp Talk. A series of writers such as Douglas Coupland, Julian Stallabrass, Dario Azzellini have been commissioned by Book Works, London to produce texts that are disseminated by email and can be downloaded from the above website. (there are 3 of six texts released via email, and 3 to follow)

Guerilla Performance Locator. Commissioned by the BBC and Arts Council for Shooting Live Artists Helen Paris and Leslie Hill invite art activists around the world to make a performance for something they believe in and submit it to the site to be added to the world map of 'Guerilla Performances'

The above links were cordially suggested by Katherine Green.

The recommended fix for this week is a site for software freaks: runme.org

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